Virginia Military Institute

This file consists of three notes pages for "TOPICS," a publication of the Marshall Research Library, which provides general institutional information and ongoings.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-07 - 1969-01-24

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Libraries

Marshall Library, 1973-04 - 1979-06

File — Box RHS Collections #0079 - #0082, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

This file consists of eight editions of "TOPICS," a publication by the George C. Marshall Research Library.

Dates: 1973-04 - 1979-06

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Libraries

Marshall Library, 1963-05-23

File — Box RHS Collections #0079 - #0082, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

This file consists of materials related to the dedication ceremonies of the George C. Marshall Research Library. Includes address delivered, an invitation, and a program for the event.

Dates: Event: 1963-05-23

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Libraries

Marshall Library, 1965

File — Box RHS Collections #0079 - #0082, Folder: 6

Scope and Contents

This file consists of two publications on the foundin0g and construction of the George C. Marshall Library, as well as two copies of a pamphlet for the library. One publication includes photos of the construction of the library, as well as images of President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaking there in its first year of existence.

Dates: 1965

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Libraries

Marshall Library

File — Box RHS Collections #0079 - #0082, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

This file consists of typed copy of a speech given at the Marshall Library's first meeting for a public group.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1964 - 1974

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Libraries

Photograph of Virginia Military Institute

File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004226], Folder: 6

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia

Photograph of Virginia Military Institute's Parade Ground

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0044

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a modern copy of a photograph of Virginia Military Institute's parade ground from the late 1880s. The image contains campus buildings, barns, and VMI cadets. The copy was made by Andre Studio in Lexington, Virginia in 1976.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Postcard of Battalion Parade, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.

File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004252], Folder: 10

Scope and Contents

Postcard by McCrum Drug Co.

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia

Postcard of Houdan's Washington, Old French Guns, VMI

File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004262], Folder: 10

Scope and Contents

Postcard by McCrum Drug Co.

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia

Postcard of Limit Gate at Virginia Military Institute

File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004257], Folder: 10

Scope and Contents

Postcard by McCrum Drug Co.

Dates: Inclusive 1882-1914; Majority of material found within Bulk 1880-1889

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Charles Manson Crutchfield Collection of Memorabilia

Robertson Family Photographs

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0335

Scope and Contents

This collection includes prints and negatives of the Robertson family as well as their home, family trips, Boy Scouts, Washington, D.C., and cousin Gordon Walker at Virginia Military Institute.

Dates: Inclusive 1930-1940

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272

Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Roscoe Phelps Diary

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0496

Content Description The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and “Lover’s Leap”. Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1901

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Selected notes from his "General Lee's College" - V

File — Box 1, Folder: 63

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Selected notes Gen. Lee's College; Glawgow papers 1870's and 1880's and other manuscript collections; correspondence re Lee Chapel; controversy

Dates: 1749 - 1954

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Ollinger Crenshaw Papers / Box 2

Souvenir Calendar of Lexington, Va.

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0068

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a souvenir calendar of Lexington, Va. for 1901. It includes images of Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, and Recumbant Lee statue by Edward V. Valentine.

Dates: Issued: 1901

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

The Charity Nightingales, 1915 - 1931

File — Box 2: [Barcode: 0000005442], Folder: 49

Scope and Contents

This file consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs of The Charity Nightingales. It is mostly copies of items from Box 1 that were used for Alex's lecture at VMI. The folder also includes materials on the McCormick Celebration in 1931, Oscar dePreist Lecture by Alex Wood in 1931, band booking for a Washington and Lee University dance, and a "New Glory Song" by Revered Holt - including music and vocal contest description for the event in 1915.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1915 - 1931

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Walker-Wood Family Papers / Box 2

The Old Corps, 1985-12-13

Item

Dates: 1985-12-13

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Fortnightly Club Papers / Papers / George M. Brooke

The Old Corps, Again, 1991-10-18

Item

Dates: 1991-10-18

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Fortnightly Club Papers / Papers / George M. Brooke

"To the People of Rockbridge" Broadside

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0311

Scope and Contents This broadside by the Valley Railroad titled 'To the People of Rockbridge' outlines funding for the railroad to be built through the county. It asks the people of Rockbridge to help finance the railroad by buying stock in it. It makes the argument that the county's prosperity depends on the railroad. It says students at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute should no longer be expected to walk through the mire to travel to and from their families and that the...

Dates: 1871

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Tucker Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0024

Scope and Contents

This collection includes items of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932) including 18 letters, 16 of which are to J.R. Tucker, legal lecture notebooks, 54 printed speeches in Congress and before other organizations by both father and son, obituaries, in memoriams and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include Thomas Mann Randolph and George Washington.

Dates: Inclusive 1794-1934

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Series — Box 19, Folder: 19-22

Dates: Majority of material found within 1609 - 2016

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection